Chapter 4: CH 3

As I was walking down the corridor in the academy, I was pushed by someone from the back.

I managed to regain my balance after almost falling down and turned around.

There was a figure of a single lady with almond-shaped eyes there.

“Ara, I beg your pardon? You were standing there doing nothing, so I thought it was an ornament”

It’s my beloved Claire-sama.

Elegant figure laughing with one hand held to her mouth, it’s the very image of a villainess.

From then on, it has become an everyday occurrence.

“Claire-sama”

“What is it? It is futile to request an apology? A commoner who was standing in that place doing nothing ――”

“How wonderful!”

“… Ha?”

Claire-sama opened her eyes wide in shock.

“Despite having followers, you don’t rely on others to dirty their hands for you! That’s what I expected of you, Claire-sama!”

“Eh?… Ha… Eh?”

“After all you’re completely different from ordinary bullies. Claire-sama, I like you very much!”

“Wha… what is with you”

Saying it’s creepy over her shoulder, Claire-sama left.

“Aah, she’s gone”

“Why do you have such a disappointed face…”

Misha said looking dumbfounded.

“Eh? Because I haven’t been bullied enough by Claire-sama?”

“I feel I may be wrong, but aren’t you making a mysterious face?”

Eeh.

“Because, don’t you think Claire-sama is shining the brightest when she’s bullying me?”

“For the time being it’s good you’re aware you’re being bullied”

Misha said relieved.

“Look, let’s go to the lecture hall quickly. The class will start soon”

“Yup”

It’s the beginning of another fun day in my fun life in another world.

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“Ara, I beg your pardon. I thought it was a bug”

She stepped on my foot this time.

“…lease”

“Ha? I could not hear you, commoner. If you have something to say, say it lou――”

“You can step on me more strongly, please!”

“Hii!?”

She became frightened.

Cute.

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“What is the matter? Are commoners too poor to buy textbooks?”

My textbook was hidden.

“I’m sorry. I haven’t noticed Claire-sama’s feelings”

“Ha?”

“You wanted to take classes sticking close to me, right!? Certainly, let’s take them together! At zero distance!”

“I do not understand what you mean!”

She got angry.

Cute.

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“Ara, might you not have anyone to partner with? Truly, you are a lowborn commoner”

I was being ostracized.

“Claire-sama tried to say she wants to partner with me, teacher”

“I will not partner with you!?”

“Eh?”

“Do not make such a mystified face!”

She ran away.

Cute.

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“Ara ara. You were so dirty I thought it was mud”

I was splashed with water.

“It’s cold”

“Ohoho. My deepest condolences!”

“Please warm me up”

“Wait, do not cling to me! Separate from me!”

It was warm.

Cute.

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“Ohoho. It serves you right!”

She put a flower vase on my desk.

“It’s a gift from Claire-sama!”

“You are wrong!?”

“It’s the first time. I’ll carry it around as a pressed flower”

“Why would you do that!?”

She seemed dissatisfied.

Cute.

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“Are you not a little too resilient!?”

“Eh? What are you talking about?”

After school.

Claire-sama threw a tantrum stamping her feet in frustration.

It seems she’s frustrated each of her bullying attempts ended in vain.

I’m just honestly responding with how I feel.

Even if it’s a fantasy world, bullying resembles bullying in Japanese schools.

Perhaps it’s because the game was made by a Japanese company.

Returning to the topic.

“I have been so cruel, why are you so composed!?”

“Cruel? Isn’t it love?”

“You are wrong!?”

“Then, what does it mean to you!”

“Why am I getting angry!?”

Pant pant, Claire-sama is breathing heavily.

Oh, every time she got involved with me she was teased.

“If you have not comprehended it until now, I will say it clearly”

Claire-sama severely raised her naturally slanted eyes even more and said.

“This academy is not the place for upstart commoners like you. Commoners should obediently devote themselves to manual labor”

“Admiring Claire-sama is my manual labor… No, it’s a charity service”

“… No more, this child”

Claire-sama wept a bit.

“Claire-sama, you can’t get discouraged. Struggle builds character, doesn’t it”

“Really, what are you!?”

Woah, she’s all-out crying, Claire-sama’s followers led her away.

“Fu, how silly”

“I truly sympathize with Claire-sama”

Misha said something I don’t understand well.

“Ahaha, don’t say something so absurd, Misha”

“What do you mean?”

“If I got serious, do you think that would be all?”

“… I see”

Misha judged it’s better to not get deeply involved and smoothly let it go.

If it was Claire-sama, I’d have received a good retort.

“Putting jokes aside, are you really not just putting up with it?”

“Yup, not at all”

“Could it be, is that your so-called love?”

“That’s a part of it, but there’s more”

Claire-sama is a villainess.

There’s no mistaking it.

But, her bullying is dear to me.

For example, there’s what I’ve already mentioned, when Claire-sama is bullying, she doesn’t make her followers do it, she always dirties her hands.

Even though she could use aristocratic roundabout ways of fighting.

Moreover, when bullying, she never crosses the line.

I was pushed in the corridor, not in a dangerous place like a staircase or a corner so I’d fall safely, moreover she just hides textbooks, never throwing them away or tearing them.

Of course, if done in the modern Japan it’s unlikely it wouldn’t matter, but this is the otome game’s world and the subject is me.

Because there are no complaints about the perpetrator afterwards and the victim is evidently delighted, what problem is there?

“How do you think I’ll be bullied tomorrow?”

“How should I know”

I’m fully enjoying my life in another world.